When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
G. K. CHESTERTONReason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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